[Informatics] Google + Honda = Self-driving Car

[Matheson, Heath A]

Where’s my readily available hover board from Back To The Future 2??? Wasn’t in my stocking this morning.

Merry Christmas!!!

Heath Matheson

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2016 5:18 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Informatics] Google + Honda = Self-driving Car

A holiday challenge for you.

Step 1. Find the 1990 Schwarzenegger movie 'Total Recall' and find the first 'Johnny Cab' scene (or some folk might prefer the easy path<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY>) .

Optional step 2. Say, "Hang on, isn't that 'Johnny Cab' voice the doctor out of Star Trek something-or-other... Voyager? The hologram guy. Robert Picardo<http://static1.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/31274/1379872-sevendoctor02.jpg>?"  Drag out your media. Watch 168 hours of Star Trek Voyager. Realise you've used up your Christmas holidays and that term 1 of 2017 starts tomorrow. Curse quietly.

Step 3. Smile wryly at the Schwarzeneggerific futuristic fantasy of robotic cars from 26 years ago.

Step 4. Realise: "Hey. That's just an Uber/Google car ! Dang - I'm living in the future!"

Step 5. Read this<https://www.wired.com/2016/12/google-honda-waymo-on-self-driving-cars/>, which says, "HONDA AND WAYMO, Google’s newly independent self-driving car effort, are working together to figure out how to put the tech giant’s sensors and software into the automaker’s vehicles."

Think: "Hey - this self-driving car thingy is getting seriously feasible."

Step 6. Find the TV show, Humans<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068> and/or Westworld<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784>.

Step 7. Think: "There's an excellent chance that in 26 years my own Mia android<http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N3cMx-VewiI/VbklD8gn6hI/AAAAAAAAChg/GP_2uP7iDDk/s1600/Humans%2BChannel%2B4.jpg> or Dolores Abernathy<http://www.iiim.is/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/westworld.png> will be delivered to my front door - probably in a Johnny Cab."

After all, who would have thought 26 years ago that self-driving cars were any more likely than the invention of an anti-gravity machine or a warp drive?

Mark

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